Italian Cream
Origin: London, England
Source: Isabella Beeton, 1861
Ingredients
- 1 pint milk
- 4 pint cream
- sugar to taste
- 1 oz isinglass
- 1 lemon
- the yolks of 4 eggs
Instructions
- Put the cream and milk into a saucepan, with sugar to sweeten, and the lemon-rind.
- Boil until the milk is well flavoured then strain it into a basin, and add the beaten yolks of eggs.
- Put this mixture into a jug;
- place the jug in a saucepan of boiling water over the fire, and stir the contents until they thicken, but do not allow them to boil.
- Take the cream off the fire, stir in the lemon-juice and isinglass, which should be melted, and whip well;
- fill a mould, place it in ice if at hand, and, when set, turn it out on a dish, and garnish as taste may dictate.
- The mixture may be whipped and drained, and then put into small glasses, when this mode of serving is preferred.